Sabyasachi Sanyal

Sabyasachi Sanyal (b. 1973) began publishing poetry in Kaurab at the turn of the millenniumand is now one of the magazine’s associate editors. He is the author of three books of poetry, Neel Gramophone (Blue Gramophone), Haripadagiri (Being Haripada), and Bracketshahar (Bracketcity), and a book of poetic prose, Aprilata (Aprilness), all published by Kaurab. Sabyasachi has traveled extensively around the globe and was educated in India, South Korea, and Sweden. A PhD in molecular biology, Sabyasachi teaches and works as a scientist at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, India.

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An introduction to the Black Writers Museum

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

If Borges is right, then an archive of books is also a being, albeit a larger one, representing a far more vast “axis of innumerable relationships.” The Black Writers Museum in Germantown, Pennsylvania, bears out this theory, placing books at the center of a community’s identity and its plight. Its founder, poet and activist Supreme Dow, happens to also be something of a human athenaeum; a trove of knowledge of black literature, history, and civil rights. And so this particular archive is not the dusty repository of a distant past, but a being in relationship that breathes and walks among its readers.